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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1973
Page
4
After about six weeks of wet weather farmers may begin hay cutting and grain harvest by mid next week. Soybean corn and sorghum harvests expected to start if dry weather holds while winter wheat planting waits for drier conditions.
Justice Department reports 1342 income tax evasion prosecutions in fiscal 1973 with 821 guilty pleas and 496 fines plus probation or suspended sentences as the most common outcome. Spiro Agnew resigned and pleaded no contest to evading 13551 in 1967, receiving $10000 fine and three years unsupervised probation.
Lawrence patrolman Charles Williams sues Theodore F. Kennedy for 40000 actual and 20000 punitive damages claiming a November 27 1972 assault while Kennedy was aware Williams was a policeman. Kennedy denied the charges in Douglas County District Court.
The forecast calls for fair skies in northeast Kansas with a cool night upper 40s and sunny Saturday reaching upper 70s. Thursday will see a high of 78 and a low of 49, while today’s morning low is 59.
Eight new tennis courts southwest of Robinson Gym at Kansas University were finished two weeks ago but lighting is indefinitely delayed. Bases and conduits are in place, yet lights exceed the area's funding and power capacity. The project began last spring and cost 69000 dollars.
Vice President-designate Gerald R. Ford urged a new beginning to rebuild trust in government and serve the public interest. He spoke at the Al Smith dinner, then headed to Knoxville to address mobile home dealers. Senate questions on his confirmation loom amid Watergate tapes dispute.
In Miami Beach AFL CIO leaders heard Sen. Henry M. Jackson attack the Nixon administration as placing big business over the poor. He compared Nixon’s economic policy to Harding and Hoover eras, criticizing handling of the economy and Soviet relations. Jackson recalled Nixon’s 1968 campaign pledge about unemployment and controls.
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